At dawn, the lights in the tent sea on the south bank of the Anshan River went out, Li Jingze walked out of the tent painted with the white blue finch logo, soaked his head directly into the enamel basin on the wooden platform of the tent door, and then pulled up a splash, shook his head comfortably, and the fatigue that had sunk on his face seemed to be washed away.

"The 109th Division Heavenly Punishment Society-North Shore Report!"

On the wide road between the tents, a black-armed man in red rode a horse, blowing a tick-tock trumpet, and the shouts in the tent sea came one after another, endlessly.

"These Tartars are stubborn, but they haven't arrived in Liaoyang yet, why do they want to go to the Heavenly Punishment Society?"

"Isn't it that the great mentors of the Heavenly Punishment Society want to take credit?"

The sleepy-eyed red-clad men emerged from the tent, chattering as they washed.

"The Heavenly Punishment Society isn't just gathering for the sake of fighting......

Li Jingze shook his head at the assistant who looked nervous, he had an all-night operation last night, and the largest wave of wounded soldiers had passed, and the artillery sound of Anshan Post Fort in the north was also subdued in the early hours of the morning, and there was only the sound of intermittent artillery in the direction of Camel Mountain, if he expected it well......

"The people who saved the night are now time to kill."

As he spoke, Li Jingze took off the cyan arm guff on his left arm, which was embroidered with a zigzag white pattern, like the ancient Chinese word for "water", and like a vertical and twisted hexagram, which was a shorthand for the Anglo-Chinese medical staff, who was the captain and medical officer of the 343rd Battalion of the 109th Division [1].

Instead of the medical arm cover, there is an iron gray arm cover, embroidered with a Tai Chi Pisces picture, white on the top and black on the bottom, and the "S" blood pattern in the middle is scarlet and eye-catching, which is the symbol of the Heavenly Punishment Society, which has a history of nearly 30 years.

"Let's go!"

beckoned the assistant who also changed into the arm sleeve of the Heavenly Punishment Society, carried the musket, and the two went up the wide road. An artillery cart was heading north, and Li Jingze and his apprentices stretched out their hands, and the gunner on the cart pulled them onto the gun carriage.

"Yes to ......"

There are no blood lines in the Taiji diagram on the arm cover, indicating that he is also Li Jingze's apprentice of the Heavenly Punishment Society.

"Well, that's something we can only do. We can only do it. ”

Li Jingze said in a deep voice while inspecting his Holy Dao four-year old gun. The apprentice swallowed, he was holding the Twenty-Year Rifled Gun of the Holy Path, much lighter than the Four-Year Smoothbore Gun, but now it felt extremely heavy.

Seeing the nervousness of the apprentice in his eyes, Li Jingze smiled slightly, and remembered his mentor again. Fourteen years ago, he was a small medical worker under the jurisdiction of the 40th Division of the Pingyu Army. He just joined the Heavenly Punishment Society, and held off against the elite of the Xishan Battalion of the Qing Army in Luling, Jiangxi. The Qing soldiers used gunpowder to blow down the city wall, broke into the city, and the red clothes counterattacked. The Qing soldiers were beaten out, and the sixty-five members of the Heavenly Punishment Society who led the way were all killed in battle, including his mentor.

If he goes into battle, he will never take his apprentices, of course, with his status as a medical officer, the Heavenly Punishment Society will not let him go into battle to kill if he dies, and the Heavenly Punishment Society will assemble on the battlefield, except for fighting. There is another duty, and this duty happens to be a threshold that the members of the Heavenly Punishment Society must pass from apprentices to full members.

Youyou's thoughts were interrupted by the jolting of the gun carriage, and by this time they had reached the pontoon bridge over the river, which, unlike the others, had a gunboat in the center of the joist, the towering tower in the middle of the hull had been removed, and the bridge was pierced through it.

Li Jingze's 20-pound artillery carriage was pulled by four horses. Carefully stepping onto the gunboat, I saw a group of people disassembling the ship's steam engine. A young navy officer will supervise by the side, and he is still swearing in his mouth, and he vaguely hears words like "dog tartar".

"That's Zheng Mingxiang, and the gunboat fleet that Han Dashuai specially asked for from the Ocean Fleet is under his control."

"I just started fighting, I turned over in this little gutter, and I will have a pain in my flesh."

"One is only 10,000 taels of silver, and it is nothing at all. I think this Zheng Lang will be annoyed because the Tartars blocked the Shahe River with chaotic boats, and the gunboat fleet could not be involved in the decisive battle. ”

"General Zheng Lang is a friend of the prince, most of them came to fight this battle for the prince, but before he arrived in Liaoyang, he stopped the fire, replaced me, and scolded people. I wanted to dismantle the ship's guns and set them up in front to bombard the Tartars. ”

"This stinging bee cannon is really unusual, I heard that it is relying on the stinging bee cannons of three gunboats to make countless openings in the wall of the Tartar fort, and the artillery of our army can easily bulldoze the fort wall, and the infantry will enter the fort at night."

The artillerymen on the car were muttering and talking, and then they heard Zheng Mingxiang roaring: "If the machine is dismantled, the cannon will be dismantled!" In this battle, our navy's share must not be left behind! ”

Li Jingze said casually: "If it weren't for the prince's desire to defend the country and see politics, I'm afraid he would also come here to participate in the war." ”

The apprentice sighed with emotion: "The prince Wen Tao Wuluo, starting from a small soldier, I heard that in order to marry a folk girl, he also insisted on not having a concubine, and he wanted to learn from His Majesty to serve the Tao, it is really like Your Majesty, we Yinghua have Your Majesty and the Prince, it must be a hundred years of prosperity!" ”

Li Jingze shook his head with a smile, the apprentice knows all folk rumors, the prince is from Huangpu martial arts, how can he start from a small soldier? The girl Xin he likes is also the daughter of a Hong Kong teacher, and she is not a full folk girl, and as for learning from His Majesty, it may not be a good thing. And relying on His Majesty and the crown prince alone, I am afraid that I can't count on a hundred years.

Thinking of himself again, Li Jingze felt that his state of mind was no different from that of his apprentice. Fourteen years ago, he was just a poor child in Jiangxi, and although he was a wandering Langzhong for generations, he just didn't want to give up his ancestral business, so he relied on more than ten acres of dry land in the mountains at home to live. At that time, he was recruited into the red clothes as a medical worker, just for a salary of four or five dollars a month.

Following the red-clothed southern expedition to the north, he was also promoted step by step to the rank of lieutenant medical officer, married a wife and had children, and the family business was already completed, but he was reluctant to rob the army and the duties of the Heavenly Punishment Society, so he still stayed in the army.

The changes in his hometown over the years, and even the folk changes he has seen, have changed with each passing day, making him feel proud from time to time, his wife and children do not want to always drift with the army, and the villagers invite him to go back to the township and county courts, and he responds with the word "worthy". I hope that at this time, Shi Neng will never look back, and the idea that life can get better and better, he will never lose to his apprentice.

Feeling buried in his heart, Li Jingze taught the apprentice as usual: "Your Majesty said that this country is a country where the monarch and the people meet, and whether life is good or not, we can't just count on the emperor, but also rely on ourselves." ”

The apprentice nodded excitedly and said: "Then after fighting Liaodong and destroying the Tartars, the people of the world will be able to bury their heads and earn their own good lives!" Our hardships and sacrifices are worth it! ”

Li Jingze smiled at the simplicity of the apprentice, with such a heart, he was qualified to enter the Heavenly Punishment Society. And the teachings of the Heavenly Punishment Society are not to turn them into inhuman people, but to let them keep such a heart when they know their senses and will and are unable to do what ordinary people can.

The north bank of the Anshan River is also a sea of tents, and there is a piece of ruins and ruins of the Anshan Post Fort, Li Jingze and his apprentice got off the artillery carriage and thanked the artillery brothers. Walk into the assembly place outside Anshan Post Fort with eye-catching signs.

When the day dawned, more than 300 members of the Heavenly Punishment Society had gathered here, these were all the members of the Heavenly Punishment Society in the rear troops of the 109th Division, and the instructors were medical officers. There are grassroots commanders and staff officers, and the chief instructor of the division is the chief sergeant, a veteran who is nearly 60 years old and comes from Qingtian Guard.

According to the 20-year new military system of the Holy Dao, the members of the Heavenly Punishment Society no longer hold the position of military chief officer above the battalion level, but among the three positions of chief sergeant, military commander (military judge) and chief priest of the Holy Martial Heavenly Temple in each division, there will always be one person who is a senior mentor of the Heavenly Punishment Society.

The Heavenly Punishment Society and the Holy Martial Society have been deeply rooted in the Anglo-Chinese Army for nearly 30 years, and the Holy Martial Society is an organization that unites the glorious heart of the warriors. It plays more of a role in friendship and mutual assistance, and promotes the return of the Anglo-Chinese soldiers to the spirit of martial arts, and the existence of the Heavenly Punishment Society, as the superior organization of the Holy Martial Society, is difficult for ordinary people to understand.

The court also discussed the Heavenly Punishment Society, thinking that the Holy Martial Society was enough to correct the hearts of the army, and the Heavenly Punishment Society seemed to be superfluous. But as soon as this remark came out, it was suppressed by the emperor. Most of the civil officials believed that the emperor wanted to add another layer of insurance on top of the Shengwu Society. In order to ensure absolute control over the army, they did not know that after the twenty-year restructuring of the Holy Dao, the Heavenly Punishment Society had become closer and closer to a loose autonomous organization, rather than a strict group that had been controlled by the emperor himself in the hands of each senior teacher. In a way, this process is the same as the transformation of Catholicism into a heavenly temple.

The Heavenly Punishment Society is attached to the Shengwu Heavenly Temple to carry out activities, and many of the sacrifices of the Shengwu Heavenly Temple are members of the Heavenly Punishment Society, and the instructors of the Heavenly Punishment Society will regularly organize the Heavenly Punishment Seminar. As well as the selection of apprentices and tutors at all levels, qualification recognition and even revocation and other matters are all organizational activities. Wrapped in these activities, it is actually just a thought, a reflection based on the Heavenly Dao Thoughts such as Heaven and Man Sanlun: "Why are you fighting? ”

With the deepening of this thinking, the members of the Heavenly Punishment Society put themselves in the status of "warriors", for which they enjoyed more glory. They are the backbone of the military, but they also take on more responsibilities. Perseverance and perseverance are one of them, and dispelling the confusion of the army's heart and guarding against the chaos of the army's heart is one of them, and the task that is difficult for more ordinary soldiers to undertake is also their duty.

"The whole team-!"

"Forward-!"

The old man of the chief sergeant shouted, and more than 300 people carried guns on their shoulders and stepped into the Anshan Post Fort.

The fort was full of broken houses and broken walls, and the red-clothed men who had entered the city at night were resting in twos and threes, lying or lying, and seeing that they were all covered in blood, and many grenadiers were sleeping on the ground without even taking off their helmets and cuirasses, and the melee at night must have been quite tragic.

Li Jingze personally treated the wounded who had been wounded overnight, and he knew very well the battle situation at Anshan Post Fort, most of the dozens of wounded he handled were stabbed and slashed by cold weapons at close range, but it can be seen that even after the red clothes entered the fort, the resistance was still very tenacious, and the fighting spirit of the Qing army, an armed guard, was particularly high.

Seeing this army entering the city, everyone wore the symbol of the Heavenly Punishment Society, and the red-clothed people in the fort gathered one after another, with respect in their eyes, and some people applauded: "The dog Tartar has been retributed now!" ”

The cheers and applause gradually became enthusiastic, and then saw a team of prisoners in ragged clothes with pigtails on their heads being pulled out, Li Jingze's prediction became a reality, and the thing their team of Heavenly Punishment Society wanted to do was very simple: kill prisoners.

More than 400 people, led by Solne, were wounded, and their hands were tied upside down, and they staggered out. When he was dragged out, he still looked reckless and never bowed his head, Li Jingze glanced around with a professional eye, and determined that the captives were not only these people at first, these people were all only slightly injured, and the seriously injured should have been dealt with on the spot.

Killing a prisoner is not the same thing as executing a large number of prisoners in a centralized manner, the former is regarded as a continuation of the battle, and the latter is the real killing of prisoners. After Wu Ya, the governor of the demon capital, made a good fight in Nanyang, in order to restrain military discipline, the general headquarters had strict regulations in this regard, and the military law did not tolerate killing prisoners without authorization. Even if you want to kill prisoners, they can't be executed by ordinary officers and soldiers, and when they are in the Western Regions, they are executed by Japanese swordsmen, and in this Liaodong, because it is a national hatred and clan hatred, the Heavenly Punishment Society acts as the executioner.

"Come on! Hurry up! Twenty years later, your grandfather Solne is a good man again! ”

Seeing a large group of red clothes with heavy eyes and black and white Taiji diagrams embroidered with blood patterns on their armbands, Solne also understood the origin of these people, and shouted in his voice.

"Captain Li, the first batch, you come to sacrifice ......"

No one paid attention to Solne, and the chief sergeant named Li Jingze's name.

This is Li Jingze's other identity: the sacrifice of the Holy Martial Heavenly Temple, and the original Heavenly Punishment Society mentor will also take on this position.

"Everyone has a death, and after death, the soul returns to heaven and enjoys eternal peace, merit and sin are determined by God, and the chaos of the world ends in front of the coffin. Wait for no worries, free from the red dust, come and go, go ......"

Li Jingze took a wooden cane, on which hung a string of flying root knots, and under the root knot was a bell. He recited the sacrificial words and walked past the row of people who were to be executed, and every time he passed, the head of the staff was tapped at the other, and the clanging sound continued.

This sacrificial word not only made Solne and the others stunned, but also dissatisfied.

"Sacrifice, they're Tartars! They don't deserve this mourning! ”

"Captain, are you mistaken!?"

This sacrificial word is too familiar, on the battlefield, when the robe is seriously injured and died, when the victims are collectively sacrificed after the war, the sacrifices of the Shengwu Temple will recite such a sacrificial word.

"Shut up! This is the Heavenly Temple Sacrifice in the Performing Sacrifice! Everyone is equal before death, and the sacrifice is the destruction of the living, and it has nothing to do with who they are! ”

The chief sergeant scolded sternly, and the red-clothed men shut up.

Originally, Solne and the others still showed panic on their faces, thinking that this was some kind of "soul binding demon method" of Nanban, but when they heard that Hongyi had a dispute with him, they realized that it was not like that.

Tasting this sacrifice again, Solne laughed and said, "It's worth it!" Lao Tzu is worth it in this life! I have killed countless Han people, raped countless Han women, and I don't know how many Han people have bowed down to Lao Tzu, claiming to be the master, and now they are going to die, and some people treat Lao Tzu as a grandfather...... No! The blessings of the Han dog are dead, and it is not in vain to come here! ”

The other Manchurian captives were also full of pride, shouting that it was worth dying, all of them holding their heads high, like martyrs who had gone to the execution ground.

The red-clothed people were so angry that their lungs were about to explode, and many people raised their guns, but they heard the chief sergeant shout: "Jackals and vicious dogs eat human flesh and drink human blood, isn't it more worthwhile?" It's a shame to deal with these wolf dogs!? ”

The old red-clothed man raised his voice and shouted: "Let you Tartars understand why our Heavenly Punishment Society came to execute today!?" The armed guards first harmed tens of thousands of people around Shengjing, and then slaughtered Jilin City, the victims are all my Chinese compatriots, each of you is involved in my Yinghua blood debt, and the crime is unforgivable! ”

"A hundred years ago, the crime of the Manchurians entering the Central Plains is waiting to be reckoned, after all, it is a hundred years old, I Yinghua is in the spirit of heaven and man, and I will not be punished by the extinct race, but today the crime of your armed guards is the current world, the current world!"

The old red-clothed man said awe-inspiringly: "Your Majesty has an order, the officers and soldiers of the armed guard, those who get it will be killed, and no prisoners will be left!" ”

Solne was stunned, and the other Manchus were also in a trance, thinking that killing them was just a red-clothed act to vent his anger, but he didn't expect that the current time was not to kill prisoners, but to execute, the punishment of the Absolute Guards. In the past, it was a battle of will between the two warring parties, but now it is like an official executing a prisoner, and the atmosphere has changed, and the pride has suddenly stopped.

"You think you deserve to die, and we think it's worth it! Who is more worthy, you can go down to Huangquan and ask Lord Yama! ”

The old red clothes drank so lowly, and the people were full of gasps, wanting to drink and scold again and regain some face, but they couldn't lift their spirits.